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by bentley 4y ago
Developers are users.
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by bentley 4y ago
That quote doesn’t contradict mine.
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by bentley 4y ago
Living in New Mexico (which nobody would consider part of the South), I have heard this phrase all my life. NM tends to rank near the bottom of positive state rankings, and near the top of negative state rankings. E.g., two quotes from its
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by bentley 4y ago
Famously, Abraham, the grandfather of the man Israel, was from “Ur of the Chaldees” according to the Bible. Ur is very possibly the same place as Ur of the Chaldees (Wikipedia calls it “the current scholarly consensus” although I don’t know
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by bentley 4y ago
An alternative that’s slightly more semantic would be Unicode’s Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block.
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by bentley 4y ago
<b> and <i> have never been deprecated, in any version of HTML or XHTML. (<u> was deprecated in HTML 4, though.)
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by bentley 4y ago
Yes, “though contacts are encrypted, users are not prevented from using a weak PIN” would have been a better way to word this criticism from the start, rather than implying that they are stored completely unencrypted.
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by bentley 4y ago
> Is there anyone that actually gets excited when they see a platform has stories, or is adding them? I was honestly excited when I saw the headline, not because I have any intention of using stories myself, but because my friends have r
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by bentley 4y ago
> Neither was signal taking your contact list and uploading a copy along with your name and photo and storing that data forever in the cloud. It seems incomplete to not mention that that data is end‐to‐end encrypted, and that name and ph
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by bentley 4y ago
What narrative would that be?
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by bentley 4y ago
This is why I not only favor purchasing DRM-free media, but also keep a local archive of all such purchases. $ ls /mnt/comixology | wc -l 239 (This can be a bit difficult for larger‐sized media, such as video games,
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by bentley 4y ago
That’s the Unicode way of doing things (which I heartily subscribe to), but in ASCII’s original conception what you describe as “abuse” was a feature. For instance, in RFC 20 which is dated 1969, 0x27 is named “Apostrophe (Closing Single Qu
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by bentley 4y ago
I always liked Antonin Scalia’s dissent in that case. “We came within one vote of declaring the VCR contraband 30 years ago in Sony [v. Universal] . The dissent in that case was driven in part by the plaintiffs’ prediction that VCR technol
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by bentley 4y ago
Is that the case, though? The US has problems of religious and political extremism, but is Muslim violence worse in magnitude than in France with its restrictions on religious expression, or anti‐semitism than in the European countries that
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by bentley 4y ago
Full context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmpz4uOGjGU
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by bentley 4y ago
Yeah, but then the characters downloaded HTML via a 1980s BBS.
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by bentley 5y ago
These graphics have been digitized at a high resolution, so they can be infinitely, perfectly duplicated. As works of the US government they are inherently uncopyrightable, so there is no legal barrier to copying them either. Thus, these im
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by bentley 5y ago
Most Americans would be surprised that the German interpretation of “the untouchable dignity of man” prohibits even insults (“Beleidigung”). There was a case in 2018 of an American who got in a tussle with German airport police, called them